Saledovil
@Saledovil@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 5 hours ago:
Well, if Grace is already well known, then her public key should be available.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 7 hours ago:
Bob would have to know and trust Grace beforehand. Grace could be the IRS, for example. The idea here being to have somebody who already knows your age vouch for your age.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 10 hours ago:
We could just make the middle man somebody who already needs that information, e.g. the IRS.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 10 hours ago:
Here’s my idea: Bob gives Alice a token, assigning her an unique random number n. Alice goes to Grace and tells her, “Somebody assigned me number n, can you verify that I’m allowed?” Grace then writes: “User n is allowed, signed Grace”. Alice then takes this letter and shows it to Bob. Bob now knows that Alice is allowed, but nothing else. Grace only knows that somebody wanted to know that Alice is allowed, not who that somebody is.
Of note here: This system does nothing to protect against an allowed user helping a not allowed user to gain access, but I don’t think it’s possible to protect against traitorous users.
- Comment on OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates 1 day ago:
Same way you short anything else, you borrow it, sell it, and then buy it back once the price has dropped, and return it.
- Comment on OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates 1 day ago:
Investors could be bailed out. As in you invested 10e11$, so now the government gives you that money back.
- Comment on Scientific Exposure 2 days ago:
What does PI mean (first sentence of your post)?
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang complains about stock price slide during all-hands meeting — says market did not appreciate company’s ‘incredible’ quarter 5 days ago:
Market cap is just share price times the number of shares. Can potentially be completely divorced from how well your company is actually doing. Conversely, a drop or rise in market cap doesn’t have to mean your company is doing better or worse. If you’re selling shovels, you still have the money when the music stops.
- Comment on Radon 6 days ago:
I bury corpses.
Hmm, that actually sounds like you run body disposal for organized crime.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang complains about stock price slide during all-hands meeting — says market did not appreciate company’s ‘incredible’ quarter 1 week ago:
In a gold rush, the real money is in selling shovels. But you have to take cash upfront.
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 2 weeks ago:
What are said cool features?
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 2 weeks ago:
Just launch a ton of ball bearings into orbit, and end space flight for ever. Or at least for the forseeable future.
- Comment on Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter 4 weeks ago:
They’re the ones selling shovels in this gold rush, though.
- Comment on Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition 4 weeks ago:
Or a Bethesda style creation club is coming.
- Comment on Fictional 4 weeks ago:
The premise of the meme being discussed sorta is that God exists and can be asked questions.
- Comment on Fictional 4 weeks ago:
If it turned out they exited, wouldn’t you want to study them?
- Comment on Why would I buy this? 5 weeks ago:
Reviews are mixed: not a great start
More than not a great start: Only people who have bought the game are allowed to review it, so reviewers are already biased towards liking the game, because only somebody who thinks they would enjoy the game would spend money on it. It’s basically impossible to get a strong negative score by just being run of the mill awful. So “mixed” means that about 50% of people who though they would enjoy the game, didn’t, which is quite damning.
- Comment on Citizen Protest Halts Chat Control; Breyer Celebrates Major Victory for Digital Privacy 1 month ago:
The greatest German achievement since the Ottonian Dynasty.
- Comment on Recommendations for the current sale 1 month ago:
Let’s see:
- Vintage Story
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Rimworld
- Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.
- etc.
Yeah, I think I’ll sit this one out.
- Comment on 9 months after its 1.0 launch flopped, an indie dev just learned that Steam never emailed the 130,000 people who wishlisted its game 2 months ago:
Thing about wishlist is, I treat it more as a “Games I found vaguely interesting at first glance” rather than a “Games I want to play” list. I assume I’m not alone in this matter. Of 214 games on my wishlist, there’s like 3 I’d play right now if they were gifted to me. 2 that I’d buy. So, assuming 1% of people who wishlisted a game will buy it on launch, that would have been 1368 sales (rounding up). Assuming the game cost 20$ at launch (it currently costs ~14$), that would be 27360$ from launch day sales. Nice payday, but not if you have to work 10 years to get it (also taxes and steam’s cut, so that number would actually be much lower)
Thing is, just because you worked hard on something doesn’t guarantee that it will be good and/or popular.
- Comment on Fuck you in particular 2 months ago:
Paint a cup handle, some of the side where it is attached to the cup black, so that it looks like the cup has no handle.
- Comment on Reddit lost it 2 months ago:
Thing is, Lemay is the pocket.
- Comment on What If There’s No AGI? 2 months ago:
What if we’re not smart enough to build something like that?
- Comment on Years ago while drunk and high I sent my sister a syphilis plushy. 2 months ago:
I gave my sister food poisoning.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 3 months ago:
Problem with Starlink is that the satellites need to be replaced every 5 years or so.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 3 months ago:
Yeah, but my point was that our current economic system can’t deal with, not that we can’t deal with it in general. Migrating away from the current system would require the powerful to give up their power, which they won’t do willingly, even as the walls are closing in. (In fact, when it comes to global warming, the walls are closing in).
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 3 months ago:
So, why are declining birth rates not a problem?
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 3 months ago:
It’s not shrinking yet, the birth rate is declining, and the world population is projected to start declining 2050.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 3 months ago:
Maybe. Could also be that humans never invent anything that comes close to a biological brain. Either because we simply aren’t smart enough, or because civilization regresses before we get there. And there’s several trends going on currently which could cause civilization to regress. For example, climate change and declining birth rates (While we could set up an economic system that can deal with a shrinking and aging population, our current one cannot).
- Comment on Forget Netflix, Volkswagen locks horsepower behind paid subscription 3 months ago:
It actually does have a cost incurred on them via increased wear and tear and warranty claims.
The customer friendly way to deal with this would be put in a limiter, and write in the contract “Warranty void if limiter removed”.